Much of the country is entering its ninth month of COVID-19-induced remote work. But a few Big Law firms are still making hires in the real estate world.

Haynes and Boone and Buchalter added new names to their real estate practice groups, the firms announced this week, with J. Kelly Bufton joining Haynes and Boone’s Chicago office as senior counsel and Kirsten Day joining Buchalter as a shareholder in Portland.